Making Marks - A Poem for Keith Haring by RandyJonesArtist
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Making Marks (For Keith Haring)
There you were
Born the same year as me, 1958
NYC by way of Western PA.
Filling subways with white chalk
Graffiti cave drawings
Urban jungle man
Of universal symbols.
Sleeping with men
While talking like a self proclaimed artist
Experiencing art universally
Finding Dr. Suess in Walt Disney.
The world was your laboratory
A singular kind of graphic expression.
Holding your paint brush upside down
While drawing dogs and flying saucers.
When you passed away from HIV
Two days after Valentines Day, 1990
It was a precious loss of life and art
To be experienced and explored.
There you were
Radiant baby democratic child
Making your mark, everywhere.
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Comments (2)
Beautiful words.
Keith would have appreciated! I love his particular "primitive" drawings/graffitis/paintings and humor (I am fond of the famous portrait of Keith Haring naked and painted, on a table, in a totally painted room, by Annie Leibowitz, another great artist )!